Triplicating sales-book.



WILBERT STEVANS BIRDSALL, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

TRIPLICATING- SALES-BOOK;

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 27, i915.

Application filed August 9, 1913. Serial No. 784,012.

To all whom. it may concern:

lle it known that l, WILBERT STEVANS lumsALL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Brooklyn, in the'county of Klngs and State of New York, have invented a newA and useful Improvement in Triplicating Sales-Books, vof which the following 1s a specification.

rihis invention relates to manifolding books and is directed particularly to 1mprovements in construction tendlng to make the` operation simpler, and to keep close check on the record. u

In carrying out my invention, l provide a book in which the original form" a continuation of the duplicate leaf which is attached to the stub. The triplicate attached at about the junction of the original and duplicate, so that the three leaves may be torn from the book together. Thus, after the salesman completes his sale and notes downhis data, he tears out the original, duplicate and triplicate from his book without dctaching these copies from each other and sends them along to the cashier. rlhe latter may then tear off one copy to send to the auditor, another copy to send to the shipping department and the third to be returned to the customer. Thus the store has a double record in two different places., to which come the slips from all of the various departments in case of a large establishment. Ryu-keeping the three slips together until they come to the cashier, assurance 1s had that none of the three slips is lost and also their andling is considerably slmplified. Als y reason of the position of the fastening the triplicate at the Junction of the original and duplicate, the top edges of all of the copies are left free when the set is detached by the salesman, so that the upper portion of the original copy together with the duplicate and triplicate 'thereof may be torn away without detachmg the bodies of the leaves from each other.

Another feature of my invention consists in the relative arrangement of the manifold sheets with respect to the carbon, whereby the manipulation of the latter by the operator is reduced to a minimum.

The various further objects and advantages will. appear more fully from the de tailed description and the novel features will be particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawing, illustrating the invention, Figure l is a perspective View illustrating the improved book, certain of the sheets being shown raised for the sake of clearness. Fig. 2 is a side view of the construction illustrated in F ig. 1.

Referring in detail to the drawings, the book consists of a back to which are attacheda plurality of sets of leaves, each set consisting of an original, duplicate and triplicate. The duplicate has a stub portion attached to the back and the original forms an integral continuation of the duplicate, it being folded thereover as clearly illustrated m the drawing. rlhe triplicate copy B is preferably made of translucent material disposed between the original and duplicate and fastened at the junction E of these copies. The carbon D may thus be attached to the stub portion F, so as to lodge between the duplicate and triplicate to make the record on the face of the former and the back of the latter. The triplicate being translucent, will read properly from the face.

thereof, as will be readily understood.

VVhenthe record is made by the salesman, he grasps the three copies at their junction E and tears them simultaneously from the stub portion, the three copies being kept together as a. unit and sent along to the cashier. The latter then tears the sheets apart and sends the dierent leaves to the proper departments. Usually one is returned to the customer, another is sent to the auditing department and still another to the shipping department. Assurance is thus had that all of the copies reach the cashier and the responsibility is thus maintained upon the latter for the various records. Also the operation required by the salesman is a simple one and substantially no greater care is required on his part than if he were handling a single copy, as all of the copies are maintained as a unit until they reach the cashier. Moreover, according to the relative arrangement of the leaves and the carbon, the handling of the latter is reduced to a minimum. In fact, substantially no handling of the carbon is required, as after one set of copies is torn out, a finger may be inserted between the proper leaves of the next set and they may thus be pulled out and turned over the carbon for the succeeding record. l have described my invention as used in connection with a single sheet of carbon. lt may be understood, however, that my invention may be used with a large 'degree of advantage with two carbons, one to be inserted over the duplicate and the other over the triplicate, in which case the triplicate may be of opaque paper. The three leaves may, as in the other construction described, be attached together and maintainedtogether until they are detached by the cashier. This construction is so clear as to need no further illustration.

Having thus described my invention, I claim asnew and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

1. A manifold book comprising a series of sets of sheets for manifold copies, each of these sets consisting of --an original and a duplicate leaf formed in one integral piece and folded one over another, one of them being secured to the stub portion, a triplicate leaf attached to the first two leaves at their junction, and a carbon between the duplicate and triplicate.

2. A manifold book comprising a series of sets of sheets for manifold copies, each of these sets consisting of an original and a duplicate leaf formed in one integral piece and folded one over another, the duplicate being secured to the stub portion, and a triplicate leaf attached to the first two leaves at their junction and disposed therebetween, and a carbon attached to theV stub for insertion between the duplicate and triplicate.

3. A triplicate manifolding book comprising a plurality of sets of leaves, each set consistlng of an integral sheet folded to form an original and duplicate leaf with a stub attached to oneleaf, and a triplicate leaf attached directly tolone of said leaves near the line of fold; said stubs being secured together, and a carbon sheet attached to the pile of stubs.

4. A manifolding book composed of a plurality of sets of leaves each of said sets consisting of two integrally connected superposed opaque leaves, a third leaf of transparent or semi-transparent material applied andsecured to one of such opaque leaves, a stub portion on one of the leaves of each set, said stub portions being bound together, and a carbon sheet permanently secured at one edgeto the stub so formed.

WILBERT STEVANS BIRDSALL,

Witnesses:

Gr. W. MACKAY, N. S. GUILDFORD. 

